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The US intelligence community begins plumbing the data they have compiled on Iran's nuclear weapons program in an attempt to shore up the Bush administration's premature conclusion that Iran is on the verge of producing a nuclear weapon. Instead, their conclusions are that Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003. In the process, White House aides begin a program of "deep dives," or special briefings for President Bush to meet with not only his advisers but the actual analysts who study Iranian intelligence data, in an attempt to allow Bush to "get his hands dirty" with real intelligence and not just pre-digested summaries. Bush is dismayed at the lack of solid intelligence on Iran's nuclear program and asks for more. When the intelligence community does provide more, it finds more and more evidence that Iran had shut down its nuclear weapons program years before. Those conclusions will be released in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) a year later (see December 3, 2007). Troubling Conclusions, White House Spin - Bush and his top officials don't like the findings; if true, the reports disprove the entirety of the administration's push to define Iran as an imminent threat to the Middle East. White House officials are initially skeptical, believing that the intelligence community might be a victim of Iranian disinformation. The intelligence agencies create a special "red team" of analysts to thoroughly test and, if possible, discredit the information. They are unable to do so. "They tried to figure out what exactly it would take to perpetrate that kind of deception, how many people would be involved, how they would go about doing it, when it would have been set up and so forth," says one intelligence official. Analysts "scrubbed and rescrubbed" more than 1,000 pieces of evidence but conclude Iran's program really had been shut down. Faced with that conclusion, the White House decides to focus on the findings that confirm their suspicions—that Iran did have a secret weapons program that could be restarted again. No one in the White House suggests that Bush tone down his rhetoric or change his policies towards Iran. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell decides to keep the new findings secret, the same position adopted by Vice President Cheney (see October 2006 and November 10, 2007). Only the Israelis are told of the new findings; Congress, the US's European allies, and the UN's monitoring agency, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) are told nothing. McConnell will reluctantly change his mind out of a fear of leaks and possible charges of a coverup. That decision may come back to haunt the administration, particularly with the ill-will it will create among the US's allies. Former State Department nonproliferation official Robert Einhorn says, "The administration is going to pay a price for not allowing allies in on it at an earlier date. The French had carried the administration's water on this issue and really went out on a limb to get the European Union to adopt tough sanctions. And now the rug has been pulled out from under them." New NIE Draft Sparks Controversy - An NIE the year before (see August 2, 2005) had led the US to conclude that Iran was actively working on a nuclear weapons program. Congressional Democrats, not entirely convinced by the NIE's conclusions and increasingly resistant to Bush's push for confrontation with Iran, asks for a new NIE. Bush wants the new NIE to confirm his accusations and, in one official's words, "get more information on Iran so we know what they're up to." The 2005 NIE had been based largely on information about Iran's "Project 1-11," a program that Iran is apparently pursuing to retrofit a ballistic missile to carry nuclear warheads (see Summer 2004). But no new information on Project 1-11 has been secured in three years, and the administration insists on new confirmations. "They just wouldn't budge," one agency official recalls. A new draft is completed in June, provoking heated discussions among agency and administration officials. CIA director Michael Hayden and NSA director Keith Alexander begin directing their agencies to closely monitor Iranians who were involved in their country's nuclear program. Soon, communications intercepts from key Iranian officials indicate that the program had been mothballed in 2003. Some of the officials discuss their belief that the program may never be restarted. Evolving NIE - As the draft NIE evolves, McConnell, with the assistance of his deputies Thomas Fingar and Donald Kerr, both national security veterans, lay down ground rules. One official later says that McConnell "quickly got the mantra down: 'We must make a clear distinction between what we know and don't know and what we judge to be the case.'" The internal debate over the NIE is sharp and often contentious. McConnell will finally inform Bush of the new conclusions—that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003—in August (see December 5, 2007 and December 3-4, 2007). In September, House and Senate intelligence committee members are informed as well. A September draft radically differs from the June version, based in large part on the communications intercepts and the exhaustive analysis on the data possessed by the CIA and NIE. The chief analysts are grilled by Hayden and his deputy Stephen Kappes, but the analyses stand up. Cheney, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, and other key officials will be given a preliminary briefing on the new NIE on November 15; Bush, finalizing a Middle East peace conference in which he will try to rally Middle Eastern countries against Iran, is not officially told of the new NIE until November 28. Bush immediately tells Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (see November 26-28, 2007), and Cheney appraises Israeli Foreign Minister Ehud Barak. Discussions about whether or not to keep the NIE secret lead to McConnell's decision to make a declassified version public. A top intelligence official says, "We knew it would leak, so honesty required that we get this out ahead, to prevent it from appearing to be cherry picking." [Washington Post, 12/8/2007]
Entity Tags: Keith Alexander, Ehud Barak, Don Kerr, Central Intelligence Agency, Bush administration (43), Ehud Olmert, International Atomic Energy Agency, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Richard ("Dick") Cheney, Robert Einhorn, National Security Agency, Mike McConnell, Michael Hayden, Stephen Kappes, Thomas Fingar, George W. Bush
Timeline Tags: US confrontation with Iran
In a press briefing, President Bush says of Iran, "As you know, the Iranians, for example, think they want to have a nuclear weapon. And we've convinced other nations to join us to send a clear message, through the United Nations, that that's unacceptable behavior." [White House, 1/26/2007]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush
In a press briefing, President Bush says that Iran is actively working on a nuclear weapon: "Our position is that we would hope that nations would be very careful in dealing with Iran, particularly since Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon, and a major threat to world peace is if the Iranians had a nuclear weapon.… [We] are deeply concerned about an Iranian government that is in violation of international accords in their attempt to develop a nuclear weapon." [White House, 3/31/2007]
George W. Bush and Ehud Olmert. [Source: White House]During a press briefing with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, President Bush accuses Iran of actively developing nuclear weapons, and warns of the ramifications of that activity. He warns of the "consequences to the Iranian government if they continue to pursue a nuclear weapon, such as financial sanctions, or economic sanctions.… Now, whether or not they abandon their nuclear weapons program, we'll see." [White House, 6/19/2007]
Entity Tags: Ehud Olmert, George W. Bush
In a press briefing, President Bush says, "The fight in Iraq is part of a broader struggle that's unfolding across the region. The same region in Iran—the same regime in Iran that is pursuing nuclear weapons and threatening to wipe Israel off the map is also providing sophisticated IEDs to extremists in Iraq who are using them to kill American soldiers." [White House, 7/12/2007]
President Bush says, "[I]t's up to Iran to prove to the world that they're a stabilizing force as opposed to a destabilizing force. After all, this is a government that has proclaimed its desire to build a nuclear weapon. This is a government that is in defiance of international accord, a government that seems to be willing to thumb its nose at the international community… [T]he burden of proof is on the Iranian government to show us that they're a positive force. And I must tell you that this current leadership there is a big disappointment to the people of Iran. The people of Iran could be doing a lot better than they are today. But because of the actions of this government, this country is isolated. And we will continue to work to isolate it, because they're not a force for good, as far as we can see. They're a destabilizing influence wherever they are." [White House, 8/6/2007]
President Bush's rhetoric towards Iran's supposed nuclear program shifts from flat assertions that Iran is definitely working for a nuclear bomb (see January 26, 2007, March 31, 2007, June 19, 2007, July 12, 2007, and August 6, 2007) to a more nuanced approach. In a press briefing, Bush now asserts that Iran is taking measures to have a nuclear weapons program: "They have expressed their desire to be able to enrich uranium, which we believe is a step toward having a nuclear weapons program. That, in itself, coupled with their stated foreign policy, is very dangerous for world stability.… It's a very troubling nation right now." [White House, 8/9/2007] Journalist Dan Froomkin, and others, later believe that Bush was informed a day or two before he made this comment that the US intelligence community has found that Iran stopped work on its nuclear weapons program in 2003. But instead of reversing course, Froomkin will write, Bush merely adjusts his rhetoric and continues to insist that Iran is a danger to the Middle East because of its nuclear ambitions (see December 5, 2007). "[I]t certainly didn't tame the overall message," Froomkin will observe. [Washington Post, 12/5/2007]
Entity Tags: Dan Froomkin, George W. Bush
The Iran NIE. [Source: Office of the Director of National Intelligence]The newly released National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) for Iran's nuclear weapons program concludes that Iran stopped working on nuclear weapons in 2003, and that the program remains on hold today. The Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that Iran is on the verge of acquiring nuclear arms, and has intimated that it is ready to attack that nation to prevent such an event from happening (see October 20, 2007). Interestingly, the administration has tried to have the NIE rewritten to more suit their view of Iran, an effort spearheaded by Vice President Dick Cheney (see October 2006). The findings of the NIE are expected to have a large impact on the negotiations between Iran and several Western countries, including the US, aimed at pressuring and cajoling Iran into giving up its nuclear energy program. The NIE, an assessment representing the consensus of the US's 16 inteligence agencies, finds that while Iran's ultimate ambitions towards becoming a nuclear-armed power remain unclear, Iran's "decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic and military costs.… Some combination of threats of intensified international scrutiny and pressures, along with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security, prestige, and goals for regional influence in other ways might—if perceived by Iran's leaders as credible—prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program." The NIE says that even if Iran were to restart development of its nuclear weapons program today, it would be at least two years at a minimum before it would have enough enriched uranium to produce a single bomb. The report says that Iran is more likely to develop a nuclear weapon by no earlier than 2013, "because of foreseeable technical and programmatic problems." The report flatly contradicts the assessment made by a 2005 NIE that concluded Iran had an active nuclear weapons program and was determined to create them as quickly as possible. "We felt that we needed to scrub all the assessments and sources to make sure we weren't misleading ourselves," says one senior intelligence official. [New York Times, 12/3/2007; Director of National Intelligence, 12/3/2007 ] There is no official word as to why the NIE has been publicly released by the White House when it so transparently contradicts the stance of the Bush administration, but Cheney implies the decision stems from a fear that it would be leaked anyway: "[T]here was a general belief that we all shared that it was important to put it out—that it was not likely to stay classified for long, anyway." [Politico, 12/5/2007] The NIE is compiled from information gathered since 2004; one of the key intelligence findings is from intercepted phone calls between Iranian military commanders indicating that the nuclear program has been halted (see July 2007).
Entity Tags: Bush administration (43), Richard ("Dick") Cheney
The Washington Post's Dan Froomkin puts together what he calls a "pattern of deception" in President Bush's response to the recently released National Intelligence Estimate about Iran (see December 3, 2007). Froomkin writes that, contrary to Bush's assertions that he knew nothing about the report's conclusions until late November (see December 3-4, 2007 and December 5-6, 2007), it is evident Bush was told something concrete in August. At that time Bush began to change his rhetoric about Iran, going from explicit assertions about Iran's nuclear weapons to more vague, yet just as alarming, assertions about Iran's desire to obtain the knowledge and technology required for building a nuclear weapon. Froomkin writes, "Bush left his listeners with what he likely knew was a fundamentally false impression. And he did so in the pursuit of a more muscular and possibly even military approach to a Middle Eastern country. It's an oddly familiar pattern of deception." Timeline of Deception - Froomkin provides a timeline of Bush's statements against Iran, from early January 2007, where Bush said Iran "want[s] to have a nuclear weapon" (see January 26, 2007), to late March, when he asserted Iran was actively working on a nuclear bomb (see March 31, 2007). In mid-June, Bush warned that there would be "consequences" towards Iran if it continued working on a nuclear bomb (see June 19, 2007). A month later, Bush tied the Iranian nuclear program into what he called a "broader struggle" in the Middle East (see July 12, 2007). On August 6, Bush said that Iran's nuclear ambitions were a "destabilizing" force in the Middle East (see August 6, 2007). But on August 9, Bush's rhetoric shifted: while not backing down from his threats and warnings about Iran's nuclear program, he began talking about Iran's enrichment of uranium and its "step[s] toward having a nuclear weapons program" (see August 9, 2007). Bush continued with that particular parsing until the NIE was made public in early December. [Washington Post, 12/5/2007] Olbermann Denounces Bush's Rhetorical Shift - MSNBC host Keith Olbermann uses Froomkin's carefully constructed timeline of presidential pronouncements about Iran to launch a fiery denunciation of Bush's deceptions. Olbermann says, "We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War III about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole, or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked, at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so, whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed were still even remotely plausible. A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief." Bush's parsing might be technically true, Olbermann notes: "Legally, it might save you from some war crimes trial, but ethically it is a lie. It is indefensible.… You, Mr. Bush, are a bald-faced liar.… You not only knew all of this about Iran in early August, but you also knew it was accurate. And instead of sharing this good news with the people you have obviously forgotten you represent, you merely fine-tuned your terrorizing of those people, to legally cover your own backside." [MSNBC, 12/6/2007]
Entity Tags: George W. Bush, Dan Froomkin, Keith Olbermann
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iBooks has long been only an iPhone or iPad affair, but today Apple announced an update at its WWDC Keynote that will bring your digital e-books to the Mac via the new operating system, OS X Mavericks.
Mac users will finally be able to peruse their library and purchase new titles on their computers. iBooks features a "flatter" design that will mirror the same functionality as the previously available iOS application. Users will be able to sync highlights, notes, and bookmarks into the cloud and access them all across devices. Apple only offered a brief preview of the application during its keynote, but Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, showed off the dynamic textbook functionality that takes notes and converts them into study cards.
The new iBooks for Mac should be available some time in the fall, once OS X Mavericks becomes available on the Mac App Store.

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Vancouver high-rise
The city fathers of Vancouver, British Columbia, where I visited last week, made a fateful decision in the 1950s.
They decided to build up, not out. Not only Vancouver's office space, but also its residential areas would consist of high-rises, not sprawling suburbs.
The planners didn't have much choice. Vancouver is tucked tightly between a deep ocean harbor and mountains of the coastal range.
There are suburbs around Vancouver, but they cling to the mountainsides which rise up from the harbor. Most people live downtown.
My hotel room was on the 31st floor. It had floor-to-ceiling windows, as did all the skyscrapers around.
And me without my binoculars.
I once stayed on the 33rd floor of a building in Manhattan. My host, like most people who live or work in a forest of skyscrapers, had a pair of binoculars at the ready.
This might sound creepy to flatlanders, but from my window in Vancouver, I had a bird's eye view into about 1,500 other rooms.
Before you think bad things, realize that these were office buildings. Most rooms were empty conference rooms, dimly lit at night, hauntingly beautiful. Thousands of swivel conference chairs. Empty.
The temptation to try to figure out what is going on across the way is irresistible. If you were there, you'd do it, too. Admit it.
During the day, I witnessed a moment which interested me about 10 floors below. A young gentleman, power dressed in a powder blue shirt and a bright red tie, sat at his desk in a plum corner office, full of windows, shuffling papers, looking busy.
As I watched, a balding older man, shirt untucked by his paunch, sleeves sloppily rolled up, barged in and plopped lazily in a chair. His appearance caused the younger man to sit bolt upright and adopt a defensive posture.
Was the older man president of the company? Or was he the guy who fixes the copier? Either way, why did he invade the younger man's office without knocking?
I'll never know. If I had my binoculars, or maybe a telescope, I could have read the documents on his desk and had some sort of answer.
As it was, I felt as if I was interpreting an Edward Hopper painting. Stark anonymity allows the imagination to roam free.
A well-planned vertical city creates a great walking city. When you stack people fifty to sixty stories high, the street life below is vibrant, busy, bustling at all hours.
Grocers, delis, bars, shops, pack together on the ground floor to serve the multitudes above.
To get the same feel in the Midwest, imagine the mall on Black Friday. However, unlike the mall on Black Friday, people who live in high rises are used to a bustling street life. They keep their cool. They maintain their manners. In Vancouver, the people seemed upbeat and happy.
What a mix of cultures and languages on the Vancouver streets! French, of course, but also Chinese, Thai, Russian, Japanese, Hindi, and most everything else.
Food? Spectacular! Just get on the street and walk a few yards and you'll find something new and wonderful.
Through my hotel window, I watched cranes load a container ship on the harbor through the night. Seaplanes took off and landed all day.
When you're used to watching finches at the feeder back home, a bustling city out your window can overstimulate. I couldn't fall asleep.
So, I went down to the street, found a pub and met some people.
Americans are strange. We spend our social hours discussing our occupation. In other countries, even those as similar to us as Canada, the last thing you want to do in your free time is talk about work.
Sure enough I happened upon a visitor from Boston who sells screws, surrounded by several bemused Canadians who impishly prodded him to reveal more about the screw business.
His company sold 1.4 billion screws last year. If you put up a building, you likely used his company's screws. If he gets the Vancouver market, that number will go up!
Was the screw salesman curious about what the Canadians he just met did for a living? Nope! He's American. We talk about ourselves.
It would have been funny, except twenty minutes later I found myself doing the same thing: carrying on about myself to a panel of seemingly curious Canadians.
Embarrassing. You can't escape your own culture. Oh, well. I'll never see them again.
With that, I disappeared up to my 31st floor room and scanned hundreds of eerie conference rooms until I found one being cleaned.
I watched with envy as the lonely night janitor pushed his vacuum, essentially farming the carpet.
If I lived in the big city, I would want his job more than any other.


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Liverpool striker Luis Suarez turned interviewer as he quizzed one of the city's favourite sons, Sir Paul McCartney.
The pair conducted a video chat before the former Beatle was due to play in Suarez's native Uruguay in front of a 50,000 strong crowd in Montevideo.
Suarez, who spoke in Spanish, asked Sir Paul about Liverpool's best cultural highlights, what he enjoyed about his home country and whether or not he would be going to the World Cup this summer in Brazil.
The Uruguyan, also joked with the singer about whether he would be supporting the South American team after they knocked England out of the World Cup.
Sir Paul replied in equal jest: "England are not going to be defeated by Uruguay, I'm sorry. England are going to win the World Cup. You know that, I know that, we all know that but please dedicate a goal to me anyway." he said.
Sir Paul, who will perform at the Centenario Stadium in the capital, said he would be watching the tournament on the television - and that his favourite football player was himself.
Asked by Suarez how is felt to be a musical legend, Sir Paul added: " I don't think of myself as a legend. Very nice of you to say that, thank you, but it's great I love what I do. I love playing with my band. I love coming to beautiful places like Montevideo, Uruguay, and the rest of the South America."
Suarez is set to feature for Liverpool against Norwich on Sunday. He jokingly asked Sir Paul to let him attend Saturday's gig if he told manager Brendan Rogers that he would get him home on time.
Sir Paul obliged, saying: "Coach, listen let Luis come out here, we'll show him a good time, we are going to have a great party in Montevideo, we'll get him on a plane, he will not be tired, he will be happy but not tired and we'll get him back in time for the game... promise."
He ended the conversation with: "Great to speak to you. Liverpool, Liverpool...Everton."
The new South American leg of Sir Paul's Out There tour opens in Uruguay tonight before heading to Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Costa Rica in the coming weeks.


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Apple store asked for another reset after taking #2 to download epson ipad print (free) app. That app works beautifully. Unlike the APPSTORE app.
This is my THIRD password reset. I know I know it.
Interesting I went "up" to the APPSTORE for the free IPAD Epson utility. It challenged me for my password, I gave it, and it started to download. So, i thought: "Hey, stuff working. Let me update the 18 apps that I couldn't do last time". Silly rabbit.
It tells me I've forgotten the password I just used successfully.
So I go thru the "i forgot my password" again. (After waiting a good 5 or 10 minutes. Reset it by incrementing the number to "3"!) Went back and retriggered the update. And, it worked.
So here is something very funky with how Apple has the APPSTORE coded.
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Iconoclasm | 2016/2017
Rayco Cano-Cortes
Rayco Cano Cortes, dancer. Rayco Cano Cortes comes from Spain receiving his training with Victor Ullate in Madrid. Prior to joining the Göteborg Ballet in 2002 he danced with Victor Ullate Ballet, Compania Nacional de Danza 2 (Nacho Duato's company for young dancers) in Madrid and Introdans in the Netherlands. Rayco has also choreographed for the Swedish Ballet School, Ballet Divertimento in Montreal and The Göteborg Ballet. He is currently the Artistic Coordinator and Mentor for NuDans, educational project of the Göteborg Ballet. With the Göteborg Opera Rayco's performances includes Bella Figura, White Darkness, Raptus, Jardi Tancat, Petite Mort, Arcangelo, Empty House, Alaska and Herzchmerz


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Displacement is a ubiquitous phenomenon in natural languages. Grammarians often speak of displacement in cases where the rules for the canonical word order of a language lead to the expectation of finding a word or phrase in a particular position in the sentence whereas it surfaces instead in a different position and the canonical position remains empty: 'Which book did you buy?' is an example of displacement because the noun phrase 'which book', which acts as the grammatical object in the question, does not occur in the canonical object position, which in English is after the verb. Instead, it surfaces at the beginning of the sentence and the object position remains empty. Displacement is often used as a diagnostic for constituent structure because it affects only (but not all) constituents. In the clear cases, displaced constituents show properties associated with two distinct linear and hierarchical positions. Typically, one of these two positions c-commands the other and the displaced element is pronounced in the c-commanding position. Displacement also shows strong interactions with the path between the empty canonical position and the position where the element is pronounced: one often encounters morphological changes along this path and evidence for structural placement of the displaced constituent, as well as constraints on displacement induced by the path.
The exact scope of displacement as an analytically unified phenomenon varies from theory to theory. If more then one type of syntactic displacement is recognized, the question of the interaction between movement types arises. Displacement phenomena are extensively studied by syntacticians. Their enduring interest derives from the fact that the complex interactions between displacement and other aspects of syntax offer a powerful probe into the inner workings and architecture of the human syntactic faculty.
Keywords: word order, syntax, constituency, hierarchical structure, linear order, filler–gap dependency, extraction, island effects
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Crews battle blaze in Silver City
SILVER CITY — Residents of Silver City fled their homes and State Route 341 was closed Sunday afternoon as a wildfire burned out of control in the hills west of the tiny town.
A dozen fire agencies responded with more than 20 engines, along with multiple aircraft and dozers to the blaze that started off of Pedlar Road just before 2 p.m.
Although evacuations were voluntary along State Route 341 and 342, in Silver City and Dayton Toll Road, Lyon County Sheriff' Lieutenant Rob Hall said several residents chose to leave their homes.
By 6:30 p.m., however, he said no structures were threatened.
"Initially, the direction of the fire was directly toward the houses," he said. "Fortunately, the fuels in that area went around the structures."
By 8:30 p.m., homowners were feeling a calmness return.
"We are safe and sound," resident Sara Ross wrote on her Facebook wall. "It got a little scary, but we are fine now."
He said the heat wave and steep mountains covered in brush made it difficult to fight the fire.
"It's 104 degrees out there and 40 mph winds, so it's tough," Hall said. "It's tough terrain, difficult to get to. They have their hands full."
Hall said the closure of the road to Virginia City and evacuations were issued as a public safety measure.
"The fire was headed toward State Route 341 and actually jumped the road," he said. "We don't want people driving into a dangerous situation."
The truck route to Virginia City — State Route 342 — remained open.
A shelter was opened at Dayton High School, operated by Lyon County Human Services and American Red Cross.
Margie Quirk, owner of Lone Mountain Veterinary Hospital, offered to house any small animals of evacuees.
No injuries or fatalities had been reported.
The cause is under investigation.


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Legs, take THAT!
When I got up this morning, I was in a can't be bothered mood - driving to the gym for my leg workout just wasn't appealing. So instead, I did a workout here in the garage. I don't actually have a lot of equipment, never having had the space for it, and what I do have has to be portable so that I can take it with me when I train clients outside the gym.
As I mentioned last week, I've been having trouble hitting my hamstrings effectively. They're comparitively weak, and one of the major causes of my ongoing back problems. So I needed something that would get them really working hard, but also something that called for minimal equipment. This is what I came up with:
Warm up - 5 minutes on the spin bike, followed by a couple of sets of body weight squats.
DB squats 3 x 8
Step ups with DBs 3 x 10
Lunges 3 x 10 - body weight only, since going heavy on these seems to aggravate my SIJ problems.
Single leg Romanian deadlifts 3 x 8 - I only used weeny 4kg DBs for these, as the technique is tricky enough without lifting mammoth amounts.
Lying fitball leg curls 3 x 10, slo-o-ow
Then onto abs with some fitball crunches 3 x 12 - again, nice and slow
And to finish off - planks on the fitball (see below) 2 x 60 seconds
For once my quads aren't completely wasted, but I'm hearing some pretty serious complaining from my hammies every time I stand up from my chair. Looks like I did something right!


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Arturo Rubinstein in order to pracise for a concert instructed his butler Francois not to let in any caller; he was to tell the caller that he was not at home. When the telephone rang Francois dutifully answered the woman at the other end as was instructed with the crashing chords of the maestro coming from the next room.
"Out?" she asked with disbelief,"I can hear him playing!" "Not at all madam,"the butler was quite clear,"it is merely I, dusting the keys."(Ack: Jack Lait Jr.-Brooklyn Eagle)
Ralph Waldo Emerson was well versed in philosophy, poetry and many other disciplines that the label of savant adequately expresses him, was however at a loss in leading a female calf into the barn. His son Edward once went to his help and he grabbed the animal by the ear while his father pushed from behind. While they were stumped an Irish servant girl came to their rescue. With an amused glance at the perspiring philosopher she thrust a finger into the calf's mouth and the animal enticed by this maternal imitation dutifully followed her into the barn.
After cleaning himself up he paid a tribute to the servant girl in his journal thus:'I like people who can do things.' (Ack: Philip Russel-The Wisest American)
George Nathaniel Curzon(1859-1925)
Curzon who was the Viceroy of India was a hard task master and no servants lasted long in his household. One fellow served Curzon in the capacity of a butler for years and he also one day decided he had had enough. He gave notice and the great man asked him if he could recommend a successor."There are," he replied wearily,"only two who could take my place-one is Jesus Christ, I am the other."
Alexandre Dumas occasionally lost patience with his servant who was not respectful always. Once after he had ignored an order Dumas cried out,"My God are you mad or am I?"
"Ah sir,"replied the servant,"surely you would not hire a servant who is mad!"
Sir William S.Gilbert(1836-1911)liberettist,wit
A lady of ample girth once was the guest of Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan fame; during the rehearsal he was urgently called to backstage and when he came back he found his guest missing. He asked the stage-hand who stood nearby if he knew whare she might be.
"Oh,"answered the stage-hand pointing,"she is round behind."
"I asked you,"replied a waspish Gilbert,"for her geography, not her description."
Soon after the death of a well known composer, someone who did not keep up with the news asked Sir Gilbert what that particular composer was doing. Gilbert said that he was doing nothing."Surely he is composing?"the fellow persisted.
"On the contrary,"commented the wit,"he is decomposing."


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This four noble plants Chinese calligraphy scroll in Chinese Pin Yin is Mei Gu Lan Xiang, Zhu Feng Ju Yan. Plum blossoms stand for perseverance and persistence, orchid for gentleness, bamboo for honesty and integrity, chrysanthemum for elegance and courage in Four Noble Plants Chinese Calligraphy Scroll. It is often hung on the wall of the study as encouragement to be hard-working. A Chinese calligraphy scroll featuring characters of Plum Blossoms, Orchid, Bamboo and Chrysanthemum, which are four noble plants representing one's praise for noble characteristics.
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Budget 2012: What was missing for the hospitality industry?
In this short audio podcast BigHospitality spoke to Robin Sheppard, managing director of Bespoke Hotels, Adrian Lowry, owner of Belfast restaurant 27 Talbot Street, Dean Pugh, manager of Leeds pub Mr Foley's Ale House and Andrew Biss, owner of the Primrose Valley hotel in St. Ives.
Hoteliers had been hoping for a change in the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) to include hotels, the pub and beer industry had been hoping for support from the rising alcohol duty and operators across the industry had been looking to George Osborne to change tack on VAT or energy and utility bills. But there was little to cheer and in a list of industries the Chancellor said the Budget backed, hospitality was notably absent.


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Six River Marine West Pointer 18 Photographed in Rockland Harbor on 8.9.08. The West Pointer is 18'6" LOA, has a beam of 7'6" and a displacement of 1100 LBS. Six River Marine is a Custom Boat Builder located in North Yarmouth, Maine.
Sorrento, Maine, Photograph taken by Portland, Maine based photographer Jeff Scher.
Camden, Maine Harbor
Camden Maine Harbor in August. The harbor is filled with schooners, sailboats, motor boats and all sorts of small rowable and motor dinghies.
In the distance you can see Mount Battie and Camden Hills State park
Hiking Bluebery Mountain, Maine along the Bickford Brook and Blueberry Ridge Trails. Views seen are looking West to New Hampshire and the White Mountains as the Fall Foliage shows it beautiful array of bright colors. Hike was completed on 10.8.06
Traveling the roads of Aroostook county to Fort Kent Maine. Routes 11 and 161 are the major North South routes on the way to Fort Kent and the Saint John River Valley.
Custom House Wharf, Portland, ME. Photograph taken by Portland, Maine based photographer Jeff Scher.
Images shot on Clark Island in St. George Maine on 1.14.07. Views include Long Cove, Clark Cove, Wheeler Bay and Two Bush Channel
Photographs taken at the 2007 Mushers Bowl held on February 10, 2007 at the Five Fields Farm on Route 107, South Bridgton, Maine. Events included Skijoring and Dog Sled Racing.
XC skiing at the Fore River Sanctuary in Portland Maine During the "Valentines Day Blizzard" of 2007. 2.14.07. During this storm up to one
foot of snow fell on the city of Portland and surrounding areas.
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member base. It is a skier only mountain that does not allow any snow boarders.
Higgins Beach Scarborough, Maine Photograph taken by Portland, Maine based photographer Jeff Scher on March 27, 2007.
Surfing The breaks at Kettle Cove off of Route 77 in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.
Photographs taken in Jonesport Maine in July overlooking the Jonesport Harbor and right near the Coast Guard Station.
Barbara - Built by Lyman - Morse of Thomaston, Maine. She is a 62'7" Loa,
Lwl 60'0", Bm 15'8". An all aluminum craft built in Lyman - Morse's recently aquired aluminum fabrication shop. She is called by the owner and designer Michael Porter a "Live Anywhere Boat" Powered by a single Cummings diesel engine. Photos were taken on a foggy summer day on 7.30.07 off of Chebeague Island, Maine where Michael and his wife Barbara live year round.
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Cascade Brook Salt Marsh part of the Scarborough Marsh in Scarborough, Maine.
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Mountain Biking in the North East Kingdom of Vermont. Photographs
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Fall Foliage in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Photograph taken by Portland, Maine based photographer Jeff Scher.
Bickford Island, Cape Porpoise, ME. Photograph by Jeff Scher
The working harbor on Bickford Island, Cape Porpoise, ME. Goat Island light can be seen off in the distance. Photograph taken by Portland, Maine based photographer Jeff Scher.
Kennebunkport, Maine photographed in December just before the Christmas Holiday. The downtown area known as Dock Square in Kennebunkport, Maine
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In 1998, MTSU's honors program, which had begun in 1973, became an Honors College. Just a few years later, with the help of generous alumni and friends, the College moved into a state-of-the-art building, that is now a central part of East campus. While the physical facilities have improved immensely, the College maintains its mission of providing an undergraduate education of exceptional quality and value to a small but diverse student population deeply committed to scholarship.
To fulfill this mission, the Honors College fosters the academic excellence and nurturing environment of a small, select, private, liberal arts college within the setting of a major university. The free exchange of ideas and the opportunity to learn from one another in small classes taught by expert faculty make the Honors College experience rich and meaningful.
We offer Buchanan Fellowships, Honors Transfer Fellowships, and other awards to students who would like to join us, and we, in turn, work diligently to advance the careers of students who are here. For each of the last two years, the College has had one or more science students who have won the prestigious Goldwater Scholarship. For each of the last three years, we have had two or more students win prestigious Fulbright Scholarships for study abroad. Within the last several years, one of our students was appointed to the USA Today All-American Academic Team. Others have distinguished themselves in mock trial, in student government, and in other activities.
The College supports students who want to study abroad as well as those who want to present their scholarly research. Last year over 60 students wrote theses and graduated with honors.
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CAIRO — New cracks emerged in the government of Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Sunday over his decree claiming power beyond the review of any court in the country, which has been met with loud protests.
While Morsi defended his decree and insisted that it was temporary, his justice minister, Ahmed Mekki, began arguing publicly for a retreat that might defuse an escalating battle between Egypt's new Islamist leaders and the institutions of its old secular authoritarian government.
Clashes involving the opposition were reported Sunday in Cairo for a third day and the president's Muslim Brotherhood has called for rival demonstrations. A teenager was killed and at least 40 people were wounded when a group of anti-Morsi protesters tried to storm the political offices of the Muslim Brotherhood in Damanhoor, the Associated Press reported.
Mekki, an influential former leader of the movement for judicial independence under Hosni Mubarak, is now one of Morsi's closest advisers. He said on two television talk shows late Saturday night that he objected to the scope of the president's decree, which his opponents say could be a first step toward a new Islamist autocracy.
The president's office has said the decree was needed to protect the democratically chosen constituent assembly that is trying to write a new Egyptian Constitution from Mubarak-appointed judges who appeared poised to dissolve it.
Mekki said he supported that goal but that the president could accomplish it with a much narrower edict, one that did not assert sweeping immunity from judicial review on other matters, the feature of the decree Morsi issued on Thursday that has prompted the loudest protests.
On Sunday, Mekki met with the highest council overseeing the Egyptian courts to discuss the matter, and the council issued a statement of its own that scholars said appeared to endorse Mekki's proposed compromise. Morsi is scheduled to meet with his advisers to discuss it Tuesday morning.
''In his head, the president thought that this would push us forward, but then it was met by all this inflammation,'' Mekki said. He faulted the president for failing to consult with opponents before issuing it; he also faulted the opponents for their unwillingness to come to the table.
On Saturday, judges across Egypt rebelled against the decree. A coalition of opposition leaders, including the former United Nations diplomat Mohamed ElBaradei and three other former Egyptian presidential candidates, demanded that the decree be canceled.
On the first day of trading since the decree was issued, Egypt's stock market fell about 9.5 percent over concerns that the latest standoff could bring more instability.
Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president and a former leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, now faces a test of his ability and willingness to engage in the kind of compromise that democratic government requires. But he also faces real doubts about the willingness of his secular-minded opponents to join him in compromise.
Each side is mired in suspicion of the other, a legacy of the decades when the Brotherhood survived here only as an insular secret society, demonized as dangerous radicals by most of the Egyptian elite.
Some conflicting signals emerged Sunday from people close to the president. The president's office issued a statement stressing that the decree was meant to last only until the country approves a new constitution and that Morsi was committed to reaching a national consensus on what that new constitution should say.


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Monkey Study Links Mom's Flu, Schizophrenia
A study of Rhesus monkeys links a mother's flu while pregnant to changes in their babies' brains that are similar to changes in brains in humans with schizophrenia. Monkeys do not get schizophrenia.
It is the first study done with monkeys that examines the effects of flu during pregnancy.
Results from this study support findings from rodent studies suggesting this type of infection may increase the risk of schizophrenia in the offspring, said lead author Sarah J. Short, Ph.D.
"This was a relatively mild flu infection, but it had a significant effect on the brains of the babies," Short said.
"While these results aren't directly applicable to humans, I do think they reinforce the idea, as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, that pregnant women should get flu shots, before they get sick."
In the study, 12 rhesus macaques were infected with a mild influenza A virus 1 month before their baby's due date, early in the third trimester of pregnancy. For comparison, the study also included 7 pregnant monkeys who did not have the flu.
When the babies were 1 year old, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans were taken of their brains. Researchers also assessed the babies' behavioral development at that time.
The babies born to flu-infected mothers showed no evidence of direct viral exposure. Their birth weight, gestation length and neuromotor, behavioral and endocrine responses were all normal.
However, the MRI scans revealed significant reductions in overall brain size in the flu-exposed babies. In addition, the scans found significant reductions of "gray matter" (the portion of brain tissue that is dark in color) especially in areas of the brain called the cingulate and parietal lobe, and significant reductions of "white matter" (brain tissue that is lighter in color) in the parietal lobe.
The cingulate is located in the middle of the brain, but spans a broad distance from front to back and relays information from both halves of the brain. This structure is important for numerous cognitive function related to emotions, learning, memory, and executive control of these processes to aid in decision-making and anticipation of rewards. In addition this structure also plays a role in regulating autonomic processes, such as blood pressure and respiratory control. The parietal lobe comprises a large section on both sides of the brain between the frontal lobes and the occipital lobes, in the back of the brain. This part of the brain integrates information from all the senses and is especially important for combining visual and spatial information.
"The brain changes that we found in the monkey babies are similar to what we typically see in MRI scans of humans with schizophrenia," said Gilmore.
"This suggests that human babies whose mothers had the flu while pregnant may have a greater risk of developing schizophrenia later in life than babies whose mothers did not have the flu. Normally that risk affects about 1 of every 100 births. Studies in humans suggest that for flu-exposed babies, the risk is 2 or 3 per 100 births."
Most of the work of the study was done at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology, which is part of Wisconsin's Department of Psychology. The center's director, Christopher Coe, Ph.D., is senior author of the study. Gilmore, a schizophrenia researcher who has led several studies that used MRI scans of newborn human brains, led the analysis of MRI data in the pregnancy and influenza study.
The study was conducted at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has found. Short worked on the study while earning her doctorate at Wisconsin and now is a post-doctoral fellow at UNC working with John H. Gilmore, M.D., professor of psychiatry in the UNC School of Medicine.
The study was published online by the journal Biological Psychiatry.
Source: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
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Having a view of majestic banana palms in your own garden is quite common in Vietnam and this became one of the most precious childhood memories of Green Banana's founder. The crooked fruit is not only the eponym of this Vietnamese restaurant in hip Prenzlauer Berg but can also be found in some of their sweet and savoury creations.
On the menu of Green Banana, you will find an array of traditional Vietnamese delicacies. As you'd expect, you'll be able to choose from delicate summer rolls, fragrant rice noodle soups and hearty curries, however, more adventurous guests can try the Green Banana Specials. To top off your meal we recommend the steamed sticky rice cake with sweet banana filling and coconut sauce for a greedy dessert - you deserve it!
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For iPhone 5, Apple Must Go Big and Skinny
Aug 16, 2012 5:00 AM PT
The latest iPhone 5 rumors are giving it a similar form factor to the existing hot-selling iPhone 4 and 4S -- except with a bigger screen. Heck, if Apple doesn't introduce a bigger screen, it will be the biggest mistake in the history of the iPhone.
Apple has to offer up a bigger screen to compete with the Android phones that have huge, gorgeous displays. Size matters. Yet some of the competing smartphones I've borrowed have great big screens but end up overdoing it. They're unpocketable monstrosities.
The Samsung Galaxy series comes to mind. Phones in that line sport screens up to 5.3 inches. These are great for looking at photos and watching video, even reading and surfing the Web. For brief moments of time, I'm jealous of them.
No way I'd pack one of them on a daily basis, though. And if Apple produced a huge iPhone 5, well, I'd buy it anyway -- but only to give it the most scathing review I could ever imagine.
Size Demands
My iPhone isn't my whole life, and I don't want to spend too much time thinking about where I'm going to store the damn thing when I'm on the go. And I'm a guy who wears reasonable jeans and cargo shorts with plenty of pockets. If anything, I want a smaller, lighter form factor -- I want more screen size but a smaller phone. I want my photos to be larger, my Web surfing better.
No way. That's why I'm an Apple fan. I know Apple can do these things. The latest rumors about a unibody design -- getting rid of the back slab of glass and creating a stiffer one-piece frame for the phone's guts -- just might make it possible to create a thinner phone. If the phone is thinner and manages to sport a slightly larger -- longer -- screen, it would represent a pretty compelling evolution of the iPhone.
Plus, if the form factor picks up rounded back edges, it could "feel" even thinner. Remember the first few generations of iPhone? They were thick, but the rounded backside made them feel thinner than reality.
And the rounded backside brings better pocketability, too -- fewer sharp edges to catch on clothing seams and a discreet pocket bulge.
So where does that leave us? Is there anything that's super exciting about the iPhone 5? A smarter Siri? Apple's new maps? Both are indubitably desirable, but not super exciting. A better camera, faster processor? Good. A bigger screen? Very important, pretty exciting, but not particularly amazing on its own. After all, the iPhone 5 will still have a smaller screen than the competition. If Apple goes big without getting thinner, Apple will simply be following the competition, not leading it.
No, the more I think about the iPhone 5, the more I believe that Apple's next-generation move has to be insanely small. Buck the Android trend for bulkier phones. The only real way to do that well is to go thinner . . . and still give guys like me a nod toward a bigger screen. Apple's evolutionary process could cement a whole new generation of iPhones and secure its spot at the top of the smartphone hill. Apple would have all sorts of ways to tout its supreme usability. Plus, I'd still be able to essentially use the iPhone 5 with one hand, letting one thumb do most of the tapping action.
Maybe Apple's new smaller dock connector is more critical to the iPhone 5 design than we might think.
What About iOS 6?
The next version of iOS may have a secret feature or a new app still hidden from the public, and while the operating system is key to Apple's success, the company doesn't have much choice here: It has to continue to prove that it can make astoundingly elegant and durable hardware without Steve Jobs at the helm throwing fits when anything is even slightly less than awe-inspiring.
If Apple can do this -- give us a bigger screen in a smaller form factor -- I'll be truly excited about the next iPhone, maybe even excited enough to wait in line for one. Again.


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Our Rectangular Sheepskin Rugs are made using Premium Quality Long Wool Sheepskins. Pelts are carefully sorted and matched for thickness, density, wool length and colour; they are then meticulously sewn together and cut to the size required. The sheepskin is then finished off with a layer of soft springy foam and cotton backed, forming the finished rug.
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Starts with you: How to get your democracy back
I'm no genius; anyone who knows me will confirm that. If you asked me to explain why our economy has been shot to hell over the past few years, I'd be hard-pressed to explain what happened. I know it has a lot to do with the lack of banking industry regulations, and maybe that's enough. Enough to get me talking about it and writing to my elected officials about it.
Because if the voters aren't paying attention, then what's the point of voting? What's the point of democracy? But the path to retaining crucial information and to good citizenship isn't a smooth or straight one. Not for me and my pathetic Teflon brain, anyway.
So often, the simplest, most personal duties are the ones I screw up.
For example, a couple of weeks ago, my husband asked me to pick up some milk at the grocery store. As I am notorious for my lousy memory, Harry said, "Maybe you'd better write it down."
As it happened, immediately before this discussion, we'd been listening to an NPR story about the most effective way to learn something and recall it later. It involves engaging several parts of the brain.
Read about it, write about it, discuss it, and, most important, engage in an activity related to it. It turns out that engaging in an activity related to the subject under study results in a 90 percent retention rate of the target information.
So, I jotted down "milk," held it up and proclaimed, "This says 'milk'!" And Harry said, "Milk is good for you. It comes from cows."
Okay, we could check off nearly everything on the NPR list. But what about an activity? I raised my hands over my head, twirled around and said, "A dance! To milk!"
It worked: I remembered to pick up the milk.
So now I'm thinking: If this works for grocery lists, surely it could work for more complex issues.
While chatting with one of Charlottesville's political cognoscenti, Bob Gibson, a few weeks ago, we agreed that the paralyzing polarization in American government today has a significant cause: (I hesitate to type the next two words because I'm afraid you'll stop reading. Stay with me, folks. Here it comes.) Partisan redistricting.
Bob and I agreed that the biggest obstacle to changing the way we draw the lines for our legislative districts is the fact that it is all so "inside baseball," this redistricting stuff. How do you get anyone to care? (Eyes here, people!)
Well, we certainly do care about the polarization thing. We watch as news and commentary shows become ever more inflammatory and intellectually dishonest in order to pull in the highest ratings. Apart from ignoring those shows, there's not much we can do to change the media.
But there is this other phenomenon we should learn about, so we can take control of it. In most states, including Virginia, when it comes time to redraw the boundaries of our political districts (and we're Constitutionally required to do so every 10 years) the task falls to whichever party happens to be in power at the time.
Whether Democrats or Republicans, you can bet that they will use the opportunity to draw a meandering line, like a net, around the populations they know will vote for them.
What, you ask, is the consequence of this? It's bad. Really bad. Democracy-killing bad. You may have seen the result of this when you entered the polling booth on November 8th.
In the Virginia State Senate races, three Democratic and 11 Republican incumbent Senators ran without anyone to challenge them.
When I ducked under the curtain in the polling booth and saw that my state senator was the only candidate to choose from, I thought, "Why did I bother to show up?" The outcome was assured before Election Day. So what was the point of Election Day?
Our district lines have been drawn such that the opposing party knows there is no point to mounting a campaign because the deck has been stacked against them.
It boils down to this: The candidate has chosen the voters, rather than the other way around.
And the other way around, i.e., the voters choosing the candidate, is what is known as democracy. When there is only one candidate, what you lose is democracy.
When that winning candidate goes to Richmond or Washington to represent the district, his or her objective is to please the voters in that rarified home district in order to win reelection. Because it's all about reelection.
So, why would the elected official compromise with any of his or her legislative colleagues? The hard line–the uncompromising stance–is what will please the homogeneous voters back home in the gerrymandered district.
Apparently, we have a whole lot of legislators like that in our government, because ain't nobody compromising.
And the small group of partisans who redraw the lines of our districts every 10 years are counting on us not paying attention to what they're doing. They are counting on it being too "inside baseball."
It is their fervent hope that the mere mention of "non-partisan redistricting" will cause your eyes to glaze over and make you want to update your Facebook status or check your email. Anything to direct your attention somewhere more interesting.
(I'm the one writing this essay, and my Teflon brain is yearning for me to check email or do anything but think about political policy.)
Wouldn't it be swell if someone would redraw our legislative districts in a way that would foster competition and encourage opposing candidates to run for office? This is a job, not for Republicans or Democrats, but for an independent commission.
Several states, including California, switched to non-partisan redistricting when they recently redrew their legislative boundaries. It's time for us in Virginia to turn our attention to this subject. Redistricting won't happen until the next census takes place in 2020, which gives us a decade to lobby for this change. We can do this.
Is it a cure-all for our polarization problem? No. But partisan districts are a significant contributing factor in the red/blue standoff that is paralyzing our country. The good news is that we can change the structure of our legislative districts. But we can't change it until we focus our attention on it and demand change.
So, now that we have read about non-partisan redistricting, and discussed it, the next step in boosting our retention of this information for the exam (which will take place after the next census) is to engage in a connected activity.
On your feet everyone! Hands over your heads and twirl: A dance! To non-partisan redistricting!
Janis Jaquith assures us that she's never sought statehood for her adopted hometown of Free Union.Read more on: gerrymandering
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So what are the results in the non-partisan districts in Ca.? More competition? Did the same people win as usual? How do we know it is really non-partisan? Who would be doing the districting?
I for one like being in a district with a percentage of like minded people. Small minds maybe but at least we get a voice.
Ms. Jaquith can applaud the fact that Sen. Jill Vogel of Winchester has already submitted a bipartisan redistricting commission bill to be considered in the 2012 General Assembly. Sen. Creigh Deeds attempted for many years to get the General Assembly to agree to bipartisan redistricting. Ms. Jaquith and the thousands who agree with her need to contact members of the House of Delegates Privileges and Elections Committee where the legislation is always killed. All the unfortunate results she cites are very true--no competition, gerrymandered districts, too many localities for legislators to adequately represent and, consequently, diminishment of the democratic process. The Virginia Redistricting Coalition, greatly disappointed by the outcome of the 2011 redistricting and awaiting the Congressional redistricting decisions, will be supporting Sen. Vogel's bill. This will be an opportunity for all those who agree with Ms. Jaquith about being disenfranchised to help prevent a re-occurrence of the 2011 redistricting misfortune. Bob Gibson of the Sorensen Institute has been invited to join the Coalition's effort. Thank you, Ms. Jaquith, for your comments. And, indeed, there WILL be dancing if Sen. Vogel's bill can get through the General Assembly.
Carrot and stick, carrot and stick. No one does anything, certainly no politician does anything, without a reward for doing it or threat of punishment for not doing it. This proposal offers the politicians in charge a punishment for doing it and no reward. It may be the best-bred horse in the race but I wouldn't place a bet on it.
Our votes are nothing more than an exercise in futility. A bygone notion that our votes actually meant something. We have been outbid.


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Warner blasts sequester as 'stupid'
Sen. Mark Warner excoriated sequestration as "stupid" Monday, saying there should have already been a solution to the looming across-the-board spending cuts.
"I don't think the public realizes how stupid these cuts are. In many places, we'll cut things that will cost the taxpayer more money than the cuts," the Virginia Democrat said on CBS's "This Morning." "In some places, we'll actually have to cut long-term contracts, which means we'll have to pay more for ships and planes."
Warner said he was puzzled the parties couldn't come together to avoid the cuts, due to kick in Friday.
"I don't get it," he said. "Why we have to wait until the last hour of the last day to avoid the crisis? I don't understand."
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Many governors have been frustrated with the inability of Congress to compromise, said Warner, himself a former governor.
"You've seen governors in both parties in the last couple of days say, 'Hey, come on, guys, get your act together,'" he said, promoting the plan proposed by Senate Democrats, which would close tax loopholes for revenues. "We've got to get it done."
Still, there seems to be some wiggle room for negotiations on the issue of tax loopholes.
Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Monday he's open to tax reform that closes loopholes if Democrats consider entitlement reforms and lower tax rates.
"The president has a lot of capital now. I think he should be coming to the Congress and talking not just about a quarter … of the pie, but the three quarters … that no one's talking about — and that's the entitlement reforms. This is a major driver of spending," McCaul said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe." "If we're ever going to get this under control, that's what we're going to have to tackle."
But even with tax loopholes as a potential area of agreement, both parties seem determined to escalate the blame game to make the other side appear more responsible for sequestration.
With sequestration set to kick in on Friday, McCaul said the automatic, across-the-board cuts were "the president's idea" and arguing the Senate has failed to act to avoid them.


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Romero's knees feel fine after second 'pen session
DUNEDIN, Fla. -- The Blue Jays will have to keep a close eye on left-hander Ricky Romero this spring as he attempts to battle back from tendinitis in both knees.
He received platelet-rich plasma injections in both knees during the offseason to help alleviate the chronic pain, but the treatment was met with mixed results.
Romero currently isn't in any danger of being shut down, but it's still relatively alarming the discomfort didn't completely subside during the club's down time.
"We keep an eye on him," manager John Gibbons said. "If he's barking, we'll shut him down or lighten the load, but when you have them at this stage of your career, it's probably going to bother you your whole career. You basically just have to deal with it, there's not structural problems, but you just grin and bear it, I guess."
Gibbons went on to say that he has yet to receive any kind of report on Romero's status. That's positive news because the medical staff would only go to him if the situation became problematic, and so far, Romero has been able to maintain a full workload.
The 28-year-old was back on the mound Monday afternoon for his second bullpen session while also throwing to live hitters for the first time this spring. Romero engaged in a friendly back-and-forth with first baseman Edwin Encarnacion as the intensity at camp slowly picks up.
Romero jammed Encarnacion with an inside pitch, but the slugging first baseman still managed to almost hit it out of the park. That prompted Romero to say, "You got lucky," which generated laughter from a group of reporters watching nearby.
It's all fun and games for now, but the most important aspect is that Romero got through his session just fine and continues to build up strength for the start of the season.
"Right now, the good thing is that everything is coming out free and easy and just trying to build off that," Romero said.


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Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a serious, painful nerve injury that affects many people in the United States. Chiropractic care is beneficial for patients seeking noninvasive relief from this ailment that has become all too prevalent with the increased use of computers. Each year, many people are diagnosed with carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), and experience symptoms like tingling, numbness, burning, and pain in parts of the hands and wrists or even an inability to grasp properly. A wrist splint worn during the night to keep the wrist in a neutral position might help prevent irritation of the median nerve. A chiropractor in Brothers Mobile Home Park, Florida can determine if the spine is the primary source of the symptoms through a thorough examination of the nerves that move from the spine through the shoulder, down the arm and into the wrist. It offers relief from wrist pain, hand numbness and loss of finger sensitivity of CTS in days.
Can chiropractors in Brothers Mobile Home Park, Florida help carpal tunnel syndrome?
Conservative management is almost always tried first and/or in combination with surgery. To solve the issue it is necessary to trace the nerve back up into the neck because you can have multiple levels of entrapment, and if you've only fixed one they you have only fixed part of the problem. When the data was compared to the range of motion in the neck for women without the carpal syndrome, it was found that women with carpal syndrome had significant limitations and restrictions to their neck movement. This injury is frequently caused over time by repetitive motion such as assembly line work, and is the most expensive work-related injury in Duval County 32254. Typically, Chiropractic treatment is to address the problematic wrist and elbow, as well as adjustments of the upper spine. This "tunnel" allows for the median nerve, which extends from the spine to the hand, to pass through.
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Writing and photographing Camaros from all over the country puts us in the company of car guys (and gals) of varying degrees—from "hardly" to "hardcore." We come across those who are slightly infected with the "car bug" and others who are not only bitten by it, but happily self-inject the virus. Take, for example, James Stacy, owner of this gorgeous Victory Red '11 2SS. On our car feature questionnaire we ask for a list of the car's technical information along with a bit of personal info so we'll have a little bit of the owner's background and his relationship with his ride while writing the feature. In the section where it asks for spouse's name, James wrote "Small Town Automotive." Right then I realized James is not your average auto shop owner. Here's a guy who recognizes (and accepts) his addiction to cars. Running his auto business and racing cars are top priority for this 42-year-old hot rodder from Fort Worth, Texas.
James is a drag racer at heart, and as to why the fifth-gen Camaro is his platform of choice, James responded: "GM put all the pieces back out there for me to build the car I've wanted for a long time. They brought back the old-school look with new-school horsepower."
Being an auto shop owner, James has the ultimate set of tools (Fast Times at Ridgemont High movie reference), not to mention the experience and know-how to make his fifth-gen fly. He started with the stock 6.2L (378ci) L99 and bored it to 4.07 inches and stroked it to 4.00 inches, bringing the mill up to 6.8 L (416 ci) of LS goodness. The stock L99 heads fit the program and are accompanied by COMP pushrods and Mahle 11.2:1-compression pistons. Eagle H-beam connecting rods and a 4340 crankshaft round out the rotating assembly. A Bullet custom camshaft (0.613/0.623 lift and 227/246 duration) puts the rpm sweet spot right on target. The GM LS3 intake and fuel pump suffice for the moment. And on occasion James cuts loose a 125-shot of juice via a Nitrous Express plate system.
Spent fuel travels through a pair of 1 7⁄8-inch polished stainless headers, a 3-inch X-pipe exhaust system, and mufflers; all from XS Power. The system promotes a hostile growl that fits the car's scrappy personality.
James' plan for bumping up the power was a simple one, and the one he's sticking with for now. At this stage, 535 hp and 609 lb-ft of torque are numbers still in the safety zone of running the stock fuel delivery system … barely.
An FTI 3,600-stall converter slaps the Circle D Transmission-upgraded 6L80E in motion for snappier launches off the line. James pushed the issue and replaced the less-than-perky 3.27 gears with a set of 3.91 cogs.
Rolling on drag radials, the Camaro has rewarded James with a best quarter-mile e.t. of 11.35 at 118 mph on the motor alone and a 10.39 at 129 mph on a 125-shot of juice. That's earning some Texas-sized street cred when you consider the weight of a stock fifth-gen 2SS. But James doesn't take all the glory; he gives props to Mike at More Power Tuning (Longwood, Florida) for dialing in the tune to make it all happen as fast as it does.
Keeping the simple theme in check, 1-inch lowering springs on all four corners is the only suspension mod performed. Braking duties were handed over to binders ripped off a V-6 fifth-gen featuring 12-inch rotors up front and 11-inchers out back. Why V-6 parts? We'll get to that reasoning in a second.
Race Star 17x4.5 wheels reside up front and cozy up to a pair of M&H Racemaster 4.5/28-17 rubber, while 15x10 Race Stars wrapped in 295/55-15 Mickey Thompson drag radials do diligence out back. This is where the V-6 brakes come in. "I had to use the V-6 Camaro brakes and slightly modify the lower control arms in order to bolt up 15-inch wheels out back—a size that everyone told me wouldn't fit," said James. "This was the only way I'd be able to run the wheel and tire combo I preferred. I just like the old-school look of running the smaller wheel with a lot of rubber. It also keeps my car from looking like all the other fifth-gens out there."
Scouring the interior, the only aftermarket piece to be found is an AEM air/fuel ratio gauge nestled in the driver-side A-pillar. And that's probably a good idea since the stock fuel system becomes increasingly taxed as horsepower increases.
Although the exterior proudly sports a slathering of factory GM Victory Red pigment, Mohr Restorations in North Richland Hills, Texas, prepped and color-matched the fully functional ram-air Phastek hood to the stock body panels. Not much love for the stock grille, James added some flair by incorporating a Heritage grille to give the car a little more eye appeal. That blade rear spoiler came from Hendrick Chevrolet in Cary, North Carolina.
Being at the helm of a project that's well into the 3-year mark, James looks forward to continuing the upgrades as time and money permit. And at this point, he's proud of the car's performance and appearance. Being able to run 15-inch wheels out back is high on his list of achievements. They offer a cool stance and an aggressive vibe not found on the vast majority of fifth-gens on the road today. He's also proud of winning the Street 7.0 index class at North Star Dragway in Denton, Texas.
Sometimes it's the subtle touches that set one car apart from another. Whether it's the wheels, tires, or stainless mesh behind a hoodscoop. Every car guy has their own interpretation of cool, and James Stacy thought a little bit out of the box when he built a fifth-gen with a style all its own. Just don't be the next guy to tell James something won't fit or can't be done on his car. He'll take the challenge and prove you wrong. And nobody likes to be wrong.
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I know a lot of cyclists will berate me for this one, but every time I mention my portable French Press that fits in a bottle cage, it seems to drum up a bit of attention. Caffeine is hands-down the most popular drug in America.
It's been said that caffeine is a way to steal time from your older self. Caffeine users surpass smokers and alcoholics by a significant margin. Some people think Caffeine is evil. Others love it. I don't care where you stand on this argument, but I'll just tell you I'm on the "love it" side of the fence.
With that, my favorite way to enjoy coffee is via French Press. For the un-initiated, there are several ways to enjoy coffee. I'll outline 4 of the most popular ways:
- Drip Brew. A filter full of coffee grounds sits in a basket. Water is heated from a resevoir and as it boils, it is forced up a tube and drips through the grounds. The filter keeps the coffee grounds from getting mixed in with the coffee you drink. The decanter below catches the coffee and is usually heated from below to keep it hot. This is probably how you get your coffee.
- Percolator. Coffee grounds are located above a vat of heated water. The heater is located below a tube, forcing water up and onto the coffee grounds. The liquid works its way through the coffee grounds. This coffee-water gets recycled and run through the coffee over and over again until it is sufficiently strong. This is how small stove-top coffee kettles and large coffee urns work.
- Espresso. Very fine coffee grounds have high-pressure steam forced through them, quickly extracting the flavor and caffeine from the coffee grounds. This is very strong and can be drank as-is, but is most often put in popular espresso-based drinks such as Mocha, Latte and Cappuccino.
- French Press. Near-boiling water and coffee grounds are stirred together in a container and allowed to steep for a period of time (usually 3-5 minutes depending on desired taste, type of coffee bean, and coarseness of the grounds). After that time has elapsed, a plunger is pressed down, which forces a screen filter through the coffee. This pushes the coffee grounds to the bottom and separates them from the coffee beverage. At this point, you may drink the coffee. In a large French Press, it's often poured into a suitable drinking mug. On a small travel press, you can drink straight from the container if you wish. The coffee grounds will not brew any further once pressed to the bottom.
French Presses come in many different styles, but my favorite one for use on the bike is the Bodum Travel Press. It's made in stainless steel as well as insulated plastic. I opt for the Stainless since it should be more durable. It's also vacuum insulated and keeps coffee warm for a long time even in the single digit temperatures I have to endure on occasion.
I bought mine on eKitchenGadgets, which was iKitchen.com once upon a time. Here's a direct link:
Also, Steven M. Scharf's Bicycle Coffee Systems website has a bunch of coffee/bicycle related information, including a bunch of links to special bottle cages and bicycle cup-holders for odd-sized travel mugs and regular travel mugs that happen to fit nicely in standard bottle cages. It's certainly worth a look.


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UnNews:Old Faithful quits
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13 March 2010
YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyoming -- The renowned "Old Faithful" geyser has called it quits after centuries of reliably calibrating all the clocks in the Western United States.
Park Rangers here said, "It's just the strangest thing that our geyser has gone off - and we have no idea how or why!" The Rangers also reported other strange things had happened, such as the 'bulge'. "The bulge, yeah, well, it's nothing really!" A Park Ranger explained. "You see, this whole park is sitting on top of the world's largest lava cauldron, and the entire thing has started to bulge about 1 meter per day ever since Old Faithful quit."
This brought to mind the recent movie, 2012 by Roland Emmerich, in which Yellow Stone Park was shown for what it is, viz., the world's most dangerous super-volcano, with enough force to make "Krakatoa" sound like a mere cap gun. When Krakatoa blew on August 27th, 1883 it was heard around the World, but the Yellowstone super-volcano has the potential to be so loud that it might be heard on the Moon.
When asked how the Rangers plan on restarting Old Faithful, one replied. "The fact is we have no idea what to do. Because we have no idea how it got started in the first place!"
"But what about the bulge?" - the Rangers were quired. "Don't you worry about that bulge. Because no body will pay money to see it. The only moneymaker was Old Faithful!" - the Rangers concluded. Immediately thereafter the Park Rangers drove out of the park speeding, as if their lives depended on it.
- Woody Quarrelsom "Old Faithful quits". unNational Geographic, March 13, 2010